Atishi holds the highest number of portfolios including Education, Finance, Revenue, Law. Recently, the CM had nominated her to hoist the Tricolour on Independence Day in his stead. However, it was rejected and the L-G nominated Gahlot to do so.

In 2015, days before the AAP expelled its founding members Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, Atishi’s fortunes looked shaken too as she was seen as close to the two leaders. In the run-up to the development, the party decided to remove her from the party’s list of spokespersons, fearing she would side with Bhushan and Yadav. Within days, however, Atishi wrote a letter to the two leaders, accusing them of not trying to iron out differences. Picking Kejriwal’s side publicly, she started working as an advisor to Manish Sisodia in the Education Department.

A Rhodes scholar who studied history at Oxford University, she helped shape and implement several of the changes that the government effected in the city’s schools and classrooms. The transformation of schools went on to become one of the AAP’s key planks and something it continues to project as one of the things that sets it apart from other parties and governments.

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